The Tipping Point in Texas

Obama has always supported the Latino community...don't believe the hype.
He marched with many Latinos and fought for their civil rights in Chicago and abroad and will continue to truly be a voice and movement for the many Latinos that go unheard. Speaker: Senator Barack H. Obama Jr. (IL)
Title: Obama Statement on Hispanic Heritage Month
Date: 09/15/2007
Location: Chicago, IL

Obama Statement on Hispanic Heritage Month

U.S. Senator Barack Obama released the following statement today to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month.

"This month, I join all Americans in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, a time to honor the achievements and sacrifices of Hispanic Americans. From a long tradition of service in the United States military to the visionary leadership of César Chávez, one of our nation's civil rights giants, Hispanic Americans have helped sew the social, economic, and cultural fabric of America.

"But despite all the progress we've made together, we know that there is more work to be done. I stood side by side with the Hispanic community when I was a community organizer in Chicago, I've stood by their side at immigration rallies, and I'll stand by their side when I'm President. We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, reduce the Latino student drop-out rate, finally enact the DREAM Act, and provide the 15 million uninsured Latinos with affordable, high-quality health care. And let's end this war in Iraq now and turn the page on the failed policies of the last seven years that have left Latinos, and so many other Americans, behind.

"What has always distinguished the Latino community - and what distinguishes us as Americans - is our belief that with big dreams and hard work, anything is possible. And with the energy the Latino community brings to our democracy and our economy, we can be assured that America's future will be bright. So this month and every month, let's reaffirm our shared history as a nation of immigrants dedicated to prosperity and opportunity for all."

-Washington Monthly September 2006

"This is a homeland-security sort of bill that America urgently needs to become law."

-Martin Schramm, Scripps Howard News Service Columnist, 12/06/2005

Stopping Nuclear Terrorism

The greatest threat our nation faces is a nuclear weapon falling into terrorists' hands. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed 650 cases of illicit trafficking in nuclear and radiological materials worldwide between 1993 and 2004. As little as four kilograms of plutonium - about the size of a soda can - can potentially be enough for a fissile nuclear bomb.

Senator Obama passed legislation with Senator Lugar to prevent weapons of mass destruction from being smuggled across the globe. Signed into law in January 2007, the Lugar-Obama initiative will help other nations detect and secure weapons of mass destruction before they ever leave their borders. Senator Obama also worked with Senator Lugar to successfully restore $8 million in budget cuts to the original Nunn-Lugar Initiative.
Project Vote Smart

Obama is a strong candidate..who is also strong on protecting Americans from terrorism and he has always demonstrated this long before his run for presidency.

Speaker: Senator Barack H. Obama Jr. (IL)
Title: Strengthening America Overseas
Date:
Issue Position
Strengthening America Overseas

As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Obama has fought to strengthen America's position in the world. Reaching across the aisle, Obama has tackled problems such as preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction and stopping the genocide in Darfur.

Taking Weapons Out of Terrorists' Hands

Today, 80 percent of the world's spending on armaments is on conventional weapons not nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. These conventional weapons are a threat to our security. Since the 1970s, more than 40 civilian aircraft have been hit by shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, and in recent conflicts around the world, small arms have caused four out of every five casualties. There are countless caches of mortars, landmines and other weapons spread across the globe. Insurgents in Iraq have used these caches against our troops by converting older munitions into roadside bombs.

In 2005, Senator Obama traveled to the former Soviet Union with Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) to investigate the dangers posed by unsecured weapons. The two senators returned from the trip and introduced legislation to establish the next generation of the Nunn-Lugar initiative. Senator Obama helped shepherd this legislation through Congress and it was signed into law in January 2007. The Lugar-Obama initiative cracks down on conventional weapon caches by building on the Nunn-Lugar program, which has secured nearly 7,000 Soviet nuclear warheads, in order to find and destroy conventional arms.

Jerry Tsai says:

... The Clintons and their supporters campaign negatively and untruthfully. They spread lies about the other candidates. Today, they are spreading lies about Senator Obama, since he is her strongest competitor. For example, see how she smeared his record on abortion rights in New Hampshire, just in time for the primary, by googling "new hampshire clinton criticizes negative mailing", and clicking on a relevant link.

Hillary Clinton conveniently makes up facts whenever she believes it benefits her. For example, google "Edmund Hillary Clinton" to find the story that she claimed that her mother named her for the famous explorer, even though she was born 6 years before he gained fame as the co-conqueror of Mt. Everest. She ad-libbed this lie for political gain at the time.

Remember her book, "It Takes a Village"? She claims sole authorship it when another person, Barbara Feinman Todd actually wrote the majority of it. Other presidential candidates who write books with ghost writers give credit to the ghost writers on the cover of their books (for example, see the cover of John McCain's "Faith of my Fathers", where he gives credit to writer Mark Salter), while Clinton selfishingly refuses to Ms. Feinman Todd any credit at all-- not even an acknowledgement in the text! Remember-- claiming somebody else's work as your own is called plagiarism. (Google "it takes a village barbara feinman" to see the full true story).

For any of you doubters, note that all of these instances have been reported by many credible media outlets, like the Associated Press, the New York Times, and of course the New York Observer, etc.

Is Hillary Clinton a person you would want as a colleague or as the leader of your team? Someone who lies whenever it favors them? Readers, please do not vote for her. You will be giving a very selfish person power and thus by proxy give power to the lobbyists and the corporations who have funded her lifestyle and campaign.
NEW YORK OBSERVER/COMMENTS

Comment: Clinton is not 'promising' to overhaul the healthcare system and she is certainly not going to REVAMP the healthcare system. The only thing that Clinton is promising is to FORCE those who do not have healthcare under a supervised controlled government healthcare initiative in which she will force all immigrants, all employees, all business owners and all self employed to have a mandated health insurance program or be heavily punished through fines, such as when driving an automobile and being pulled over and fined for not having your car insurance, AND with this TAX (BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT IS) she will FORCE everyone to carry a chip-holding insurance card with a GPS system to which besides having all of your medical records, will a government tracking device card, so that if you are pulled over by a police man and you did not have your health insurance card you would be fined for not having this insurance. Clinton "will use the heavy hand of government", her quote, to enforce the citizens to this "tax program" called "UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE". PEOPLE WILL BE FINED, WAGES GARNISHED. WHICH COULD MEAN, $150-$200 COMING OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK. THIS IS THE GREATEST TRICKERY OF ALL TIME. READ, RESEARCH, AND VOTE OBAMA.

Here we go again.

The last time a Clinton???s path to the Democratic presidential nomination was blocked, the campaign used a war in the Middle East to create an artificial???but politically devastating???caricature of its opponent.

The year was 1992, the opponent was Paul Tsongas, and the war in question was the Gulf War, a subject on which Tsongas and Bill Clinton had one thing in common: When the war had been debated in Congress in January 1991, they???d both agreed with its opponents.

But Bill Clinton added a hedge: After ducking reporters for months, he finally said, on the eve of the invasion, that he would probably have voted for it???even though he agreed with those who opposed it.

And then, a year later, he used his ???support??? for it to bury Tsongas in the critical Florida primary, attacking Tsongas??? principled war opposition to advance his ridiculous charge that Tsongas was ???soft??? on Israel???a lethal accusation in Florida Democratic politics.

The Clintons took Tsongas??? Gulf War position and a few out-of-context quotes and old Senate votes, turned them into scary leaflets and blanketed heavily Jewish areas with them. Then, days before the primary, they sent in a New York congressman named Stephen Solarz to ratchet up the scare tactics to absurd???but, again, devastating???heights.

???At a moment when potentially the fate of Israel hung in the balance,??? Solzarz told Jewish voters, ???Clinton was prepared to use force. Tsongas was not.??????

Linking opposition to the Gulf War to Israel???s security was inflammatory and disingenuous, and Bill Clinton had only begun praising the war after it was fought and won. But the tactic worked.

Tsongas was thrown on the defensive, forced to rebut each supposed example of his ???softness??? on Israel manufactured by the Clintons, drowning out his own message. All the while, Bill Clinton fulminated against the press, fuming about its supposed favoritism toward Tsongas???a tactic that spurred much of the press to prove its fairness by treating Clinton???s sham attacks as a straightforward policy dispute.

Jewish voters turned on Tsongas and flocked to Mr. Clinton, who won Florida, and the Tsongas campaign was effectively finished...continued in next comment

And now, 16 years later, the Clintons are doing the same thing.

This time their target is Barack Obama. Their charge is that he is a flip-flopping hypocrite. And their new weapon is the Iraq war.

Just like Bill Clinton with the Gulf War, Hillary Clinton would hardly seem to be in position to rub the war in her opponent???s face. She voted to authorize it (and said absolutely nothing when President Bush launched the 2003 invasion without letting U.N. weapons inspectors finish their work), while Mr. Obama, months before the invasion, said that it would be ???a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.???

That prescient war opposition, and the contrast with Hillary???s own war vote, has helped fuel the Obama campaign. So now the Clintons are trying to discredit him with the same strategy they used against Paul Tsongas.

Bill Clinton got the ball rolling just before the New Hampshire primary with his ???biggest fairy tale I???ve ever seen??? characterization of Obama???s war opposition. The Clinton argument: Mr. Obama may have opposed the war in 2002 and 2003, but as a senator, he???s voted to fund it.

Hillary echoed the attack a few days later on NBC???s Meet the Press, and she dispatched Jamie Rubin, a State Department spokesman under Bill Clinton, to play the Solarz role, vouching for the Clintons??? version of events and asserting that there???s really no difference between Hillary and Mr. Obama on Iraq.

And once again they are launching their attack while Bill Clinton simultaneously slams the media for its supposed unfairness.

The Clinton attack is substantively thin. It???s certainly true that Mr. Obama has voted to fund the war???but those votes also provided funding for troops in the field, and they came only after it was clear that Congress lacked the votes to force an unwilling president to begin a withdrawal. Some of the top war opponents in Congress???like Wisconsin???s David Obey, who opposed the invasion from the start???have also resisted the idea of cutting off funds.

If the inability of Congressional Democrats to stop the war has taught us anything, it???s that the only vote on Iraq that has really mattered these past five years was the very first one, in October 2002.

Hillary Clinton supported it and Barack Obama opposed it.

Simple facts didn???t get in the way of Bill Clinton???s argument 16 years ago. They certainly don???t seem to bother Hillary Clinton today.

New York Observer- Written by Steve Kornacki

Here we go again.

The last time a Clinton???s path to the Democratic presidential nomination was blocked, the campaign used a war in the Middle East to create an artificial???but politically devastating???caricature of its opponent.

The year was 1992, the opponent was Paul Tsongas, and the war in question was the Gulf War, a subject on which Tsongas and Bill Clinton had one thing in common: When the war had been debated in Congress in January 1991, they???d both agreed with its opponents.

But Bill Clinton added a hedge: After ducking reporters for months, he finally said, on the eve of the invasion, that he would probably have voted for it???even though he agreed with those who opposed it.

And then, a year later, he used his ???support??? for it to bury Tsongas in the critical Florida primary, attacking Tsongas??? principled war opposition to advance his ridiculous charge that Tsongas was ???soft??? on Israel???a lethal accusation in Florida Democratic politics.

The Clintons took Tsongas??? Gulf War position and a few out-of-context quotes and old Senate votes, turned them into scary leaflets and blanketed heavily Jewish areas with them. Then, days before the primary, they sent in a New York congressman named Stephen Solarz to ratchet up the scare tactics to absurd???but, again, devastating???heights.

???At a moment when potentially the fate of Israel hung in the balance,??? Solzarz told Jewish voters, ???Clinton was prepared to use force. Tsongas was not.??????

Linking opposition to the Gulf War to Israel???s security was inflammatory and disingenuous, and Bill Clinton had only begun praising the war after it was fought and won. But the tactic worked.

Tsongas was thrown on the defensive, forced to rebut each supposed example of his ???softness??? on Israel manufactured by the Clintons, drowning out his own message. All the while, Bill Clinton fulminated against the press, fuming about its supposed favoritism toward Tsongas???a tactic that spurred much of the press to prove its fairness by treating Clinton???s sham attacks as a straightforward policy dispute.

Jewish voters turned on Tsongas and flocked to Mr. Clinton, who won Florida, and the Tsongas campaign was effectively finished...continued in next comment

Listen carefully-CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE-vote for me, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE,I am not a mohammed, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE,,CHANGE...

It works better if you snort a few lines before you chant

Forrest Gump had all you Victimcrates pegged. STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!!!

Lew Alcindor-Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Cassius Clay-Mohammed Ali
Cat Stevens-Yusef YabbaDabbaDoo

Muslim converts change their "christian" name to identify with their new mohammedness.

Barak Hussein Obama-Barak Hussein Obama HE ALREADY IDENTIFIED.

I guess the real question here is which candidate will be more able to pull the country together. More able to listen to the people and develope a united coalition to get the job done. Anyone that has followed the campaigns of all these candidates should be able to clearly see that there is only one that can do this.....Barak Obama.